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Volker F. Wendisch

Prof. Dr. Volker F. Wendisch holds the Chair of Genetics of Prokaryotes at the Faculty of Biology at Bielefeld University, Germany. He serves as deputy scientific director of its Center for Biotechnology CeBiTec and is member of the board of CLIB2021, an international open innovation cluster of stakeholders active in biotechnology and bioeconomy from academic institutes and universities, investors, SMEs, and industry based in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Volker F. Wendisch received his diploma in biology from Cologne University, Germany. After having completed his PhD at the Institute...Read more

Joseph Chappell

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Joseph Chappell became Chair of the UK College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences on May 15, 2013. Dr. Chappell is an acclaimed natural product scientist and will help develop the College’s expertise in plant derived drug candidates.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California, San Diego. He then received his PhD in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Freiburg and Max Planck Institute-Cologne in Germany, then at the University of...Read more

Han Li

Dr. Han Li is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California, Irvine. She obtained her B.S in Biological Sciences from Tsinghua University, China in 2008, and her Ph.D. with Dr. James Liao at University of California, Los Angeles in 2013, and conducted postdoctoral study with Dr. Peter Schultz at The Scripps Research Institutes, San Diego in 2013-2015. Her group pioneers artificial cofactor technology and redox balance-based enzyme evolution, which enable broad microbial and cell-free...Read more

Birgitta E. Ebert

Birgitta Ebert studied Chemical Engineering from 2000 to 2005 at the TU Dortmund University (Dortmund, Germany) with a specialization in biotechnology and technical chemistry. In her diploma thesis at the Chair of Chemical Biotechnology (TU Dortmund, Germany) she computationally analyzed and experimentally verified the metabolic potential of Escherichia coli for whole-cell redox biocatalysis.

During her PhD thesis, supervised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmid at the Chair of Chemical Biotechnology (TU Dortmund, Germany), she further applied systems biotechnological approaches to...Read more

Soha Hassoun

Soha Hassoun is Professor and Past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. She holds secondary appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and also in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts. Soha received the BSEE degree from South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, the Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Soha's research interest is in the area of...Read more

Engineered Autonomous Control of Metabolic Pathways

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, April 7, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EDT
Microbial systems offer the opportunity to produce a wide variety of chemical compounds in a sustainable fashion. Economical production, however, requires processes that operate with high titer,...

Debottleneck Distillation Columns Using Dividing Wall Column Technology

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 19, 2021
Dividing wall technology is increasingly used in the industry to produce more throughput in existing columns. This presentation explores the revamp...

Is Larger-Scale Distillation Research Still Relevant?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 19, 2021
In the era of quantum computing, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, is the large-scale distillation research still relevant? The liquid/...

Earth Day Free Virtual Seminars

Dear Mid-Michigan AIChE members & well-wishers, given below are three free seminars coming up in celebration of Earth Day in the month of April 2021. Please consider attending them. 1) Join Nayomi Cawthorne, Farm manager at D-Town Farm; The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DCFSN...

Public speaking for ChemEs: improve your oral communication skills

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 19, 2021
Whether you are giving a talk for a class, at a (virtual) conference, or to get a job, it is essential that you shine in every way. Learn the...

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